Delta flight nearly collides with Air Force jet during Arlington National Cemetery flyover
March 29, 2025 | Vivek Saxena
A Delta Air Lines flight with 137 people on board almost collided with a U.S. Air Force jet in what could have been the second major air collision to occur in months.
Around 3:15 pm on Friday, March 28th, nearly three months since the Potomac River collision, Delta flight 2983 took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia en route to Saint Paul, Minnesota.
As the Delta flight took off, four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons that’d taken off from Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia were flying toward Arlington National Cemetery for a brief flyover.
At some point after takeoff, the Delta flight “received an onboard alert that another aircraft was nearby,” according to a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
That aircraft is now believed to be one of the U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons en route to Arlington National Cemetery.
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